Music

Gaming

MMO’s (Massive Multiplayer Online): (WoW, Call of duty)
1 hour of online play uses an estimated 20 MB per hour.This is value doesn’t take into account downloading the game, patches, or third party add-ons.

Online Games(Facebook, Flash Gaming Sites)
Facebook and other online games use an estimated 10 MB per hour.

Social Sites and Chat

Social Sites: (Facebook, Twitter)
Bandwidth usage of social sites can vary greatly depending on what you are doing.
1 hour on Facebook for average status updates and surfing is estimated at about 10 MB. Uploading and viewing lots of pictures, playing videos, application, and games will greatly increase the usage.

Chat
Ten lines of text-based chat are estimated to need 10,000 KB. An hour of chatting with one party requires approximately .6 MB.

Online Backup:
This value will vary depending on the amount of data you are backing up. It’s a 1-1 ratio so if you back up 5 GB worth of data your usage would be 5 GB.

Downloads

Software:
Vary greatly depending on the downloading. We are using 500 MB per software download as a default value.

Updates (Virus/Windows/Gaming Updates)
This value will vary depending on the user. Use this field to estimate the total size of your average monthly updates.

Typical windows updates average around 30-40 MB.

A Service pack update can be as large as 900 MB.

Gaming patches can also range greatly – Most patches range from 3 - 40 MB. Some are above 4000 MB.

This tool was designed to help user get an estimated total of their possible bandwidth usage, while interacting with different elements on the web. The values below are examples based on averages using a PC and are estimates only. The actual amount of data used for the described activity can vary significantly. Since many activities have many variables that contribute to their bandwidth use, Cable One can’t give you a 100% accurate value.

Change the values below to adjust the weighted* value of the sliders on the main page.

Web Browsing

Weight

Data Value

Basic Sites:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Multimedia Rich Web:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Email

Email - no Attachments:

(per Email)

KB
MB
GB

Email - with Attachments:

(per Email)

KB
MB
GB

Video Streaming

Full Length Video:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Short Length Video:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Music

Streaming Music:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Downloading Music:

(per Download)

KB
MB
GB

Gaming

MMO's:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Facebook/Flash Games:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Social Sites

Chat:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Social Site Post:

(per Hour)

KB
MB
GB

Uploads

Documents/Presentations:

(per Document)

KB
MB
GB

Photos:

(per Photo)

KB
MB
GB

Online Backup:

(per Amount)

KB
MB
GB

Downloads

Software:

(per download)

KB
MB
GB

Updates (Virus/Windows):

(per amount)

KB
MB
GB

Weight - To calculate bandwidth usage we take the number of hours and/or the number of item sent and multiple that by a weighted value. Different interactions over the internet take up a different amount of bandwidth. For example streaming or watching a video over the internet (about 3-5 GB) is far more bandwidth than sending a typical email with not attachments (about 15 KB per message).

Data Value - is measured by the number of bytes. (GB, MB, or KB.)
The sliders on the main page are measured in GB. We use the values below to determine the values in MB and KB.

1 GB = 1024 MB

1 GB = 1048576 KB

The equation we use to calculate the sliders on the main page:Value of slider * (Weight Value / Data Weight )

The values below have been preset based on usage reports found in various sources on the internet.